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Long Gone (From The Bowlin' Green) (Rehearsal Sequence)
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Louis Armstrong
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Pops, did you hear the story of Long John Dean?
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Not yet drummer
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A bold bank robber from Bowlin' Green
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Was sent to the jail house yesterday
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But late last night he made his getaway
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[Chorus]
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He was long gone from Kentucky
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Long gone, ain't he lucky?
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Long gone, what I mean
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A long gone John from Bowlin' Green
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Long John stood on the railroad tie
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Waitin' for freight train to come by
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Freight train came by puffin' and flyin'
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Oughta seen long John grabbin' that blind
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[Chorus]
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They caught him in 'Frisco to seal his fate
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At San Quentin they jailed him one evening late
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But out on the ocean John did escape
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'Cause the guards forgot to close the Golden Gate
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[Chorus]
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Well, they offered a reward to bring him back
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Even put bloodhounds on his track
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Those doggone bloodhounds lost his scent
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Now nobody knows where John went
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[Chorus]
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A gang of men tried to capture Dean
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So they chased him with a submarine
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Dean jumped overboard and grabbed the submarine
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And made that gang catch a flyin' machine
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He's long gone from Kentucky
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A long gone, that boy's lucky
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A long gone, what I mean
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A long gone John from Bowlin' Green
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He's long gone, I said, from Kentucky
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Long gone, hmm, that boy's lucky
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Long gone; yeah, he's got nothing in the head
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Long gone, long gone
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